Marker



GEORG-E WILLIAM ERICSON, GALESB'URG, ILLINOIS.

MARKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

Application led September 2, 1920. Serial No. 407,678.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. EiiiosoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Marker, of which the following is a specilication.

It is the object of this invention to provide a simple and inexpensive but efcient means whereby a card or plate may be held on an umbrella, a cane or other article ofa like sort.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

l/Vith the above and other objects in View, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l shows in plan, lthe blank from which the marker is formed; Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the marker in partially completed condition; Fig. 3 is a transverse section; Fig. et is a perspective showing the marker applied to a cane, the line 3--3 of Fig. d denotingv the plane on which Fig. 3 is cut; and Fig. 5 is a plan of the marker, laid flat, the card being in place.

The marker forming the subject matter of this application is made from a plate l provided adjacent to one longitudinal edge 2 with openings 3, there being reduced tongues 5, 6 and 7 projecting from the opposite longitudinal edge 4L of the plate. Fingers 8 outstand from the plate l at the ends thereof, in alinement with an elongated aperture 9 fashioned in the plate relatively near to the edge 2.

A card or the like, indicated at l0, may be placed against the rear face of the plate l, the fingers 8 being bent inwardly to engage the card at its ends, as shown in Fig. 5. The plate l is bent to form a flat body l1 and a bendable wing 12, the tongues 5, 6 and 7 beingV received in the openings 3. Since the tongues are of different lengths, the tongues may be inserted into the openings 3, one at a time, the operation of inserting the tongues into the openings being facilitated accordingly. The device, by the operation above alluded to, may be held about a cane 14 or other article. As indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, those portions of the wing l2 which are adjacent to the body l1, are disposed substantially at right angles to the body, as denoted by the numeral l5. A card l0 may be retained by the lingers 8 on the body ll so that the card is visible through the aperture 9. The portions 15 serve to retain the card l0 in the fingers 8 and prevent the card from sliding out of the fingers, longitudinally of the ngers.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A marker fashioned from a plate disposed in tubular form and provided adjacent to vone longitudinal edge with a plurality of openings, vand provided along its opposite longitudinal edge with reduced tongues received in the openings and clenched on the plate, the tongues decreasing successively in length to facilitate the insertion of the tongues one at a time into the openings, the plate being equipped at its ends with inwardly projecting card holding fingers, there being an aperture in the plate, between the fingers, adapted to disclose a card held in the ngers.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE WILLIAM ERICSON.

Witnesses:

A. W. KNU'isoN, A. B. KERK. 

